Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Arachniodes (113)
  • Cyclodium (11)
  • Didymochlaena (105)
  • Dryopteris (206)
  • Lomagramma (1)
  • Maxonia (1)
  • Olfersia (74)
  • Phanerophlebia (57)
  • Polybotrya (239)
  • Polystichum (223)
  • Rumohra (1)
  • Stigmatopteris (150)